Archive - Jun 6, 2013 Penguin Random House South Africa

10 Myths about Authors as Explored by ... an Author

1. Being an author is glamorous.

Before I had managed to write a book, I had an image of what an author should be in my mind that was something akin to Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge; sitting down melancholically in the middle of the night at his type writer with the Eiffel Tower outside his window and, after a sip of absinth, typing the words ‘This is a story about love’.

Launch of Random Kak I Remember about Growing up in South Africa

Meet and chat to Trevor Romain via Skype and get signed copies of his new book, Random Kak I remember about growing up in South Africa. Phone 011 640 1480.

Date: Sunday, 9 June 2013

Time: 3.00pm until 4.45pm

Venue: Knot 2 Shabby, 1 Durham Street (Raedene Corner)

Trevor Romain's Random Kak I Remember about Growing up in South Africa

Remember? When you wore bell bottoms and wound up cassette tapes with a Bic pen. When ‘The World at War’ was on TV and LM Radio played on the radiogram, and when there were call-up papers in the mailbox and 2 c stamps on letters. VW Beetles were everywhere, the Bay City Rollers were it, and the smell of Wintergreen filled the change rooms. On these pages, hundreds of the little things that made up the world for many in the 70s and 80s come to life in Trevor Romain’s whimsical drawings and laugh-out-loud commentary.